"Wange, you can't call me master anymore."

Wan Ge's beautiful eyes were filled with confusion; she didn't understand what it meant.

Ying Cizhou gently stroked her hair and explained tenderly, "No one calls their lover 'master.' You can call me husband, my lord, Cizhou, or Zhouzhou. Or you can call me Yinglang or Brother Cizhou."

"I don't understand." Wan Ge didn't understand what he meant.

"Then will you call me husband?" Ying Cizhou's deep and gentle voice rang in her ear again, his warm and husky voice seemed to have a bewitching power.

At this moment, however, Wan Ge is someone who only has memories of this world, deeply believes herself to be a sword spirit, and is emotionally weak.

So when faced with his attitude, Wan Ge simply replied softly, "But you are my master, not my husband."

The sword spirit doesn't need a husband, and how could she call her master "husband"?

"No, I am your husband, and from now on you will be my wife. I am not your master."

"But you..."

"Hmm?" Ying Cizhou's tone turned colder, and his face gradually darkened.

Wan Ge kept her mouth shut. Okay, if he says so, then so be it. He's the master, what can she do?

All the sword spirit had to do was obey its master's orders: "I understand, my husband."

"Good girl." Ying Cizhou smiled with satisfaction and lowered his head to kiss her.

But before Ying Cizhou could let go of her, the sound of a teacup shattering came from behind them.

Wan Ge looked over and saw Mu Qingning standing there with a deathly pale face, the tea set she had been holding shattered on the ground.

"Master, you...you..." Mu Qingning's face was full of disbelief. She wondered why her master was so bothered. So that's why!

My master, the number one cultivator in the world, actually fell in love with a sword spirit.

While sword spirits are rare, they aren't as uncommon as one might imagine; it's just that the spirits of ancient divine swords are even rarer. Before a contract is formed, the sword spirit is sealed within the sword and won't appear. Only after a contract is formed will the sword spirit emerge to meet its master.

However, some sword spirits either died alongside their masters in battle, leaving only the sword itself behind, or they remain in a perpetual slumber, unable to be awakened.

The sword that Mu Qingning holds is one whose sword spirit has not awakened. Even if Mu Qingning holds the Fuming Sword, since the sword spirit has not awakened, she can only exert half of the Fuming Sword's power at most, no matter how much power she uses.

However, in the minds of everyone in the cultivation world, sword spirits are merely accessories to swords. For most people who treat swords simply as weapons, sword spirits are nothing more than servants.

Perhaps only those who treat the sword as a companion will have some different perspectives.

Mu Qingning never considered the sword to be her companion from the beginning. Therefore, she did not initially choose the Zhaoye Sword, which was most suitable for her, but instead chose the Fuming Sword, which was ranked first.

She just didn't know that the Ten Ancient Divine Swords were not actually ranked. The reason why the Fuming Sword was ranked first was simply because it had become famous. In terms of strength, all ten swords were equally matched.

Later, through a series of unexpected events, some powerful sword spirits appeared.

Later generations, unaware of this, simply believed that those ranked higher were more powerful, thus regarding the Fuming Sword as the number one sword in the world.